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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ * Port to the D programming language:
+ *     Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de>
+ *******************************************************************************/
+module dwtx.jface.text.IInformationControlCreator;
+
+import dwt.dwthelper.utils;
+
+
+import dwt.widgets.Shell;
+
+
+/**
+ * Interface of a factory for information controls (
+ * {@link dwtx.jface.text.IInformationControl}).
+ *
+ * In order to provide backward compatibility for clients of
+ * <code>IInformationControlCreator</code>, extension interfaces are used as
+ * a means of evolution. The following extension interfaces exist:
+ * <ul>
+ * <li>{@link dwtx.jface.text.IInformationControlCreatorExtension} since
+ *     version 3.0 introducing checks of whether existing information control can
+ *     be reused and whether information control creators can replace each other.
+ * </li>
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * @see dwtx.jface.text.IInformationControlCreatorExtension
+ * @since 2.0
+ */
+public interface IInformationControlCreator {
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a new information control with the given shell as the control's parent.
+     *
+     * @param parent the parent shell
+     * @return the created information control
+     */
+    IInformationControl createInformationControl(Shell parent);
+}
+